stultify
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Not for Gardiner the pietistically devotional approach that can stultify.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
He puts the yawn into stultify, the stupefy into catatonia, stone-facedly delivering the exact same chords, licks, and nasal delivery for over three decades over a backbeat that would have lost the Boer War.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2012
So when this cafeteria culture hits the big city, does the collision somehow stultify economic activity? Cities, after all, need people out on the sidewalks.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2011
The reason is the feeling in jazz that if you print something, if you write down the notes, you will stultify the music.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2010
Each felt too strongly on these subjects to give way, and thereby stultify his or her convictions.
From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith
In the last section, Elvis is stultified and oppressed, sapped of color and life, isolated in his “golden cage” at the International Hotel in Vegas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
Surrealism was a profoundly anticolonial movement — and long after it had stultified in metropolitan France, its oppositional languages found their highest expression in the Caribbean.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2021
All these lessons leave me stultified; The hours in the day just drag along — I think they’ve multiplied!
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2020
The stultified senators should distract themselves with dice cricket, a game beloved by indoorsy British children.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2020
After all, as he told himself, the atmosphere of Throgmorton Street had probably stultified his outlook.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
For Jews, the stultifying fact to be faced is that antisemitism has nothing to do with Jews.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
In reality, the most powerful force in the modern American city is the stultifying status quo.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2024
In Lebanon, the stultifying heat of summer is overlaid by a layer of anxiety.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2024
The sheer amount of loss can be downright stultifying at times.
From Salon ● May 20, 2023
The years had passed with a stultifying sameness.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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